David Cameron visits Roll-Royce training centre

David Cameron meets apprentices during a visit to Rolls Royce Learning and Career Development Centre

Under this Government, if you’re someone on minimum wage, working a full week, your income tax bill has been cut in half.

Prime Minister David Cameron

The PM toured the site in Derby and chatted to trainees learning how to build engines for Boeing 787 airliners.

And last night Mr Cameron emphasised his work message as he said: “Under this Government, if you’re someone on minimum wage, working a full week, your income tax bill has been cut in half.

“We’ve got to make choices where we encourage work and that people are better off in work. Those are the choices that this Government has made.”

Mr Cameron backed Chancellor George Osborne’s claim that the benefits system played a role in the case of Mick Philpott, 56, who killed six of his 17 kids in a fire in Derby.

The Prime Minister said: “Mick Philpott was responsible for this crime and he has been held responsible. But there is a wider agenda. The welfare state is there to help – it is not a lifestyle choice.”